„When I worked as a consultant on a 1998 re-editing of Touch of Evil based on a set of suggestions Welles made to Universal in 1957 about improving its own version, our team took pains to clarify that our version wasn’t—and couldn’t be—anything else but an attempt to follow those suggestions. But our fine distinctions got lost in the shuffle, because Universal and others had already been describing a longer version, belatedly discovered in their vaults in the 1970s, as both a restoration and a director’s cut, and these erroneous labels often got affixed to the 1998 rerelease as well. Even on the jacket of the 50th-anniversary box set, released last year and containing all three versions, which I worked on in several capacities, our recut is erroneously described as both „restored“ and „definitive.“ In my own preface to the Welles memo inside that package, I was obliged by Universal to use the word „restored,“ so I had to settle for placing that word inside quotation marks.“ („Death by a Thousand Director’s Cuts – How DVD Marketing is rewriting the history of Film“. In: Slate, posted Tuesday, June 23, 2009, at 9:26 AM ET)